If you want to distinguish your goods, services (or both) from those of another business, you may need a trade mark. Find out what trade marks are and what’s involved in the application and management process.

If you are a self filer, attorney or a Qualified Person (QP) –this is the place to find our examination manuals, FAQs, case studies, search tools and more to help you further understand and research intellectual property.

Please complete this form to request a partial change in ownership of a trade mark application or registration. Note that this is only for some of the goods and/or services for which the trade mark is or may be registered.

Please complete this form if you are requesting the Commissioner to publish a notice in the Official Journal that your specification is open to public inspection. Publication of an unexamined standard application occurs about 18 months after the earliest priority date, however you can request this to be done early.

Please complete this form if you would like to have your design registered.

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Do not provide your home address to us if you do not want it published online. You can provide a post office box or other valid address if you want to keep your home address private. Your address for service of legal documents can be a post office box, but it must be an address in Australia.